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To the end of his life he was closely identified with the 

 organization, which he loved with the love of a father. All 

 visitors to the Society in the later years of his lifetime cannot 

 fail to recall his familiar presence at the drawing-table in shirt- 

 sleeves and red-backed vest, or, as in his hours of relaxation, 

 leaning back in his chair with the stem of a cob pipe between 

 his lips. He retained his sight marvelously, making to the last 

 all his studies and drawings with a small hand lens, and finding 

 any aid unnecessary to his reading and writing. His hair was 

 just beginning to change from brown to gray when he died. 



His personal character was above reproach; no one ever 



imputed to him falsehood or unfair dealing. His botanical 



statements, though sometimes erroneous, were true so far as he 



was concerned, and always made in good faith, but he was a 



dreamy, imaginative man, full of poetic fancies, which often in 



descriptions caused him to dwell unduly upon some point which 



caught his fanc}-. His habit of tracing " correspondencies " 



between the material world and its organisms and the mental 



states of man, often appeared in his botanical writings. The 



first description of " Marah," for instatfce, was followed by 



a small sermon on the "bitter waters" of affliction, and to the 



type of Quercus Morehus is appended the following note: 



' ' Abrani's Oak named from the circumstauce of Abram's first encamp- 

 ment in the oak groves of Moreh, on his journej' to Egypt (Egypt in 

 correspondential language signifies Natural Sciences)." 



His childlike enthusiasm and unworldliness impressed all 

 who met him. He asked of the world only the means of 

 simplest living. He lived a happy life and died respected. 

 Would there were more like him. 



NOTES ON SOME COLORADO PLANTS. 



BY ALICE EASTWOOD. 



Ranunculus alism.efolius Geyer. This is described in 

 Coulter's Manual as having leaves with entire margins. This is 

 misleading; for they are as often dentate with scattered teeth. 



Ranunculus Macauleyi Gra^^. This varies on every moun- 

 tain range where it has been found. It grows along the edge of 



